This visualization is precisely made for hierarchical graphs. That is why the edges are called "hierarchical bundled edges". So, yes, you need a hierarchical graph.
Cheers, Doru On Apr 19, 2013, at 8:57 PM, Alexandre Bergel <alexandre.ber...@me.com> wrote: > This is a very cool visualization. There is no reason why we cannot do it in > Pharo > > Alexandre > > > On Apr 19, 2013, at 10:49 AM, Frank Shearar <frank.shea...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I've played with these before [1]. They work best with hierarchical names. >> In other words, in a flat namespace (say, showing class dependencies with >> just the class name) you end up with a very messy diagram. >> >> Let's assume you use "." as the name token separator. If you prefixed the >> names with their packages, say Tools-Debugger.Debugger, you'd get a better >> graph, where the bundles would be tighter. If you made things more >> hierarchical still, say with names like Tools.Debugger.Debugger, things >> would look even better. >> >> The deeper the naming hierarchy the fewer fat bundles you get in the image. >> >> frank >> >> [1] http://mbostock.github.io/d3/talk/20111116/bundle.html >> >> On 19 April 2013 16:37, Alexandre Bergel <alexandre.ber...@me.com> wrote: >> Let's have this discussion in the Pharo list. >> >> Alexandre >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> From: Alexandre Bergel <alexandre.ber...@me.com> >>> Subject: [Moose-dev] Re: Roassal new algorithms >>> Date: April 19, 2013 11:25:31 AM GMT-04:00 >>> To: Moose-related development <moose-...@iam.unibe.ch> >>> Reply-To: Moose-related development <moose-...@iam.unibe.ch> >>> >>>> There are more than simply linear, quadratic and cubic Bezier curves. In >>>> fact, as you can have as many control points as you wish, you can have a >>>> Bezier curve of any order. >>> >>> Ok >>> >>>> But what I was calling RadialBezierCurve was a kind of strategy, I mean I >>>> have an abstract class which knows how to compute a curve, but I still >>>> have to choose my control points so I was thinking to create different >>>> subclasses whose role is to know what are their control points : >>>> >>>> - The radial one choose its control points within the same radius as its >>>> source and its target. >>> >>> Ah ok >>> >>>> I wanted to create an ortoVertical and an ortoHorizontal whose control >>>> points would have been computed differently, so that we could use Bezier >>>> curve for regular tree too. >>> >>> It would be cool to have hierarchical bundles edges in Roassal. >>> A screenshot of what it looks like: >>> <Screen Shot 2013-04-19 at 11.24.59 AM.png> >>> >>> The technical description: >>> http://www.win.tue.nl/~dholten/papers/bundles_infovis.pdf >>> >>> Alexandre >>> >>> -- >>> _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: >>> Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu >>> ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Moose-dev mailing list >>> moose-...@iam.unibe.ch >>> https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev >> >> -- >> _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: >> Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu >> ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. >> >> >> >> > > -- > _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: > Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu > ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. > > > > -- www.tudorgirba.com "What is more important: To be happy, or to make happy?"
